GABRIELE ROSSIConcrete Cluster

The form of the landscape has radically changed since 1963 – new mountains have formed and some spaces that used to be empty were filled. A new place has been created that is very different from the one that existed before.

Here I am, living by the sea. Since I was 4 years old, every winter my father took me and my family to the mountain. Sliding on the snow I used to look at the mountain around, at the firs, at the wet ground. I will always remember one year. We arrived to the Dolomites, but there wasn’t any snow, not a single snowflake. I can still feel the disappointment.I was born in Latina in 1979. My father is a doctor. My mother, an educator, brought me and my sister up. Then we stopped going to the mountain and I started the university. After two years of lessons and boredom, I gazed upon the library, I take decisively the camera that we used to bring to the mountain with us, and I got some shots. So I began to take my self seriously: I attended a photography course in Rome, then a master in Milan and an intership with Francesco Jodice. When I came back to my city I started a travel backwards to my memory places, comparing them with the present. Everything is different to me now.